Why men should wear hats - Stylish, mature and respectful: It’s about time

Maclean's ^ | May 29, 2013

[ArrogantBustard]

[Slings and Arrows]

“Stylish, mature and respectful,” natch.

[doorgunner69]

Usually, when I think of hats, first thing pops into the mind's eye are gen-x/y/z and the backward baseball cap thing. Instant way to lower their estimated IQ to anyone that sees them.

And now we have the ghetto look, backwards, but not straight back, deliberately crooked.

So gehtto, so disgusting. Sorry, my boonie hat sometimes, that is it.

[Romulus]

A fake soldier and a real one.

[Jane Long]

Combo Hat/Hairholder

[9YearLurker]

Agreed. Men’s hats should be functional protection from precipitation or the cold.

Adornment is unmanly.

[patriot08]

Hats..stupid unnecessary - and even more so for women.

[ottbmare]

YES!

I love a man wearing a hat and always take care to thank gentlemen I see in nice hats.

[9YearLurker]

Good point!

[ottbmare]

If you, or P.J. O’Rourke, had any idea how hot a man looks when he’s wearing a hat, you’d all run out and buy them. Mind, I’m not advocating grandpa hats. But don’t nobody tell me that John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, and Clint Eastwood aren’t sexy in their hats. So are all the cowboys, the military guys wearing boonie hats, the shooters, hunters, Don Draper, and other icons of male attractiveness.

In extremely hot, sunny weather or cold weather, men look silly with their heads exposed to the weather and their hair blowing around. One looks at them and thinks, “What a stooge. He’s leaving himself vulnerable to the elements and he won’t be able to work outdoors as long as someone who was prudent enough to wear a hat.”

[Jeff Chandler]

[ottbmare]

That’s not a hat. It’s a cap.

[boop]

I remember a Dennis the Menace comic book where he took one of his dad's fedoras and turned it into one of those Jughead-style crown caps.

Henry was not pleased.

[Fire_on_High]

Times like this I wish FR had a like button :-)

[Morgana]

[FreedomPoster]

One of my favorites:

[Chode]

good one!!!

[Utah Binger]

[Scoutmaster]

Hey! That hat’s an Akubra Banjo Patterson hat and I own one of them. The hatband’s made of Barramundi skin.

[a fool in paradise]

Beats the alternative.